I think a couple of these points need to be reiterated...
What is Pelosi going to do with Syria? She hasn't the power to negotiate anything. Essentially, she is using her elected position to express her personal opinion to Syria.
Nancy Pelosi is out to build a name for Nancy Pelosi, probably for a run at the presidency. She is typical of the flash versus substance politics that has given us this fiasco. She needs to stay home
While I disagree that she does not have the power to negotiate anything, I agree that this is her own way of progressing her political agenda. There is no good that can come of her going abroad to visit foreign leaders. If anything...like
I would think it weakens us in the eyes of the world.
EXACTLY.
I would say she has the power to negotiate things, but would any of that matter if she got back to the U.S. and asked GW for something? I mean, first she goes against the State Departments wishes, fine...she is stubborn, but then she goes and tries to negotiate with another country when she does not have the backing of the very country she is representing. How can any good come of this?
This isn't about Republican or Democrat. Its about Pelosi and her BS. She was strongly advised by the state dept. not to take this trip and regardless of how any one feels about her personally its irresponsible of someone in her position to take this trip at the present time.
I agree with this statement, here's my proof...
White House Official Criticizes Pelosi Visit to Syria (Update1)
By Laura Litvan and Brendan Murray
March 30 (Bloomberg) -- A White House spokeswoman denounced a plan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit officials in Syria as part of a trip to the Middle East.
Pelosi's outreach to a state sponsor of terrorism is a ``really bad idea,'' White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said at a briefing in Washington. ``Someone should take a step back and think about the message that it sends and the message that it sends to our allies.''
Perino's remarks come as a group of Republican lawmakers has embarked on their own trip to Syria. Michael Lowry, a spokesman for Representative Robert Aderholt, said that the Alabama lawmaker will visit Syria as part of a Republican delegation led by Representative Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican. Wolf is the top Republican on the House appropriations subcommittee that funds the State Department.
Perino wasn't available to comment about that trip.
How is it, that a group of Republican legislators can go to a country seemingly unknown to the average American, but when Pelosi visits, I mean its a huge fanfare? Seems to me, that if I were going to go and negotiate in the Middle East, where quote on quote Americans are hated, I would not tell anyone until I got back. This just goes to prove that she is on her own political agenda and that she is showing off...like "hey, see me, I am here and GW told me not too, ha ha ha" Childish games are all they are, more childish games.
Bush managed to take us from a position of having the compassion and support of the free world after 9/11 to the most hated state we have ever obtained. I had to cancel a trip to Greece this year because of the negative opinion of even europeans towards Americans. Never have I ever had to be concerned with such things.
Sorry PP, but thats just total BS...more rhetoric that just goes to prove its just your opinion on how the rest of the world feels...I mean seriously..."the most hated state...ever" As far as the Greece trip, I am sorry to hear that, but I never would have cancelled a trip to another country because I am American...NEVER, matter of fact, I am touring the European area (Hungary, Austria, Czech, Poland, and Germany) this summer. Doesn't mean I am going to carry an American flag on a 10ft. pole above my head, but if someone asked, I would happily be obliged to tell them I am from the best nation the world has ever seen